Rodolphus has had a strange month... Here it is, in a more compact form at least:
January 4, 2005: Rodolphus figures out how the more complex aspects of sending post and
OWLs Robards to check in.
Also OWLs Ollivander about the possibility of having a new wand made. Robards refuses to release the identity of the witch or wizard who brought Bella to her end. Later that day, Rodolphus decides to get out for a bit and bumps into (literally) Willis Travers - an old housemate from the same year of his at Hogwarts. The two
have some whiskey and catch up (incomplete?).
January 17, 2005: Rodolphus
receives an OWL from his older brother, Rabastan, who is traveling toward Stoatshead.
January 21, 2005: Rodolphus spots his brother out the window of his flat at Hammerside and the two reunite after many years apart(incomplete).